Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Race, Tech, and Justice Salon: How Can Artificial Intelligence Be Used for Good in the Criminal Legal System?
3:00–4:00 p.m.
This is a virtual event
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Join a virtual conversation with a team of legal scholars, policy advocates, and computer scientists to explore a new direction for AI-informed decision-making to advocate for justice.
In recent years, advocates and scholars have exposed how the explosive growth of AI-driven technology and automated decision-making in the criminal legal system, including predictive algorithms such as risk assessment instruments, contribute to systemic racial bias and unjust outcomes
We will explore how some scholars and advocates are using machine learning to review and evaluate thousands of California parole hearing transcripts to identify patterns of systemic bias and errors in human decision-making and advocate for policy reform.
Featured Speakers
- Kristen Bell, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon School of Law
- Keith Wattley, Founder & Executive Director, UnCommon Law
- Jake Searcy, Assistant Research Professor of Data Science, Department of Data Science, University of Oregon
- AJ Alvero, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Florida